Swear Words in Early Childhood Communication
Abstract
There has many differ perception about the meaning of swear words in daily communication, so that this research's aim was to described those swear word's meaning. The focus of this research is meaning of swear words that said by children age 4-6 years in RA Al-Azhar Bantur. This research used descriptive qualitative method, thereby the collected data was found on research field. The result showed that the swearing words commonly spoken by children was jancuk, taek, bedhes, patek, goblok, gendeng, and jangkrik. Children did not know the meaning of those swearing words, but they assume that swearing is a taboo and it is not a good thing if they did.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Swearing
Euphemism
Multilingualism
Linguistics and Language Analysis
English Language Learning and Teaching
Publication details
- Journal / source
- jurnal pendidikan humaniora
- Publisher
- State University of Malang (UM)
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 34–38
- Publication date
- 11 April 2026
- Language
- EN